PALESTINE UPDATE

No. 93 (2009.02.11) – The Palestine-Israel Question on South Bulletin

Editor’s note:

In this issue of PU, we reproduce a special issue of a bulletin issued by the South Centre which is an inter-government policy think tank of the Developing countries. The various articles contained in the bulletin focus on the present crisis humanity faces in the holocaust that was perpetrated by the Jews of Israel on the people of Palestine. In his “Holocaust Denied” John Pilger quotes the Soviet poet Yevtushenko. “When the truth is replaced by silence,” the poet said, “the silence is a lie.” Yevtushenko was asking why those who knew what was happening are silent. In relation to the war in Gaza, John Pilger says, “Among the Anglo-American intelligentsia … (t)hey know that the horror rained on Gaza had little to do with Hamas or, absurdly, “Israel’s right to exist.” They know the opposite to be true: that Palestine’s right to exist was canceled 61 years ago and the expulsion and, if necessary, extinction of the indigenous people was planned and executed by the founders of Israel.”

In solidarity,

Ranjan Solomon

The Palestine-Israel Question on South Bulletin

SOUTH BULLETIN: Reflections and Foresights

Special Issue on Palestine-Israel

16 January 2009, Issue 30

Inside this issue:

The Palestine-Israel Question:
There is another way out of the present dilemma

Yash Tandon

 

Holocaust Denied: The lying silence of those who know

John Pilger

 

End the Scourge of War

Miguel d’Escoto Brockmann

 

Accountability Must Be Ensured for Violations of International Law

Navanethem Pillay

 

Mahatma Gandhi on the Palestine Question

From the Collected Works of Mahatma Gandhi, Vols. 74 & 91

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